As hardcore criminals step up their spamming, experts believe that nine out of 10 of all emails may soon be unsolicited junk.
It's time to accept an unpleasant truth.
On April 12, 1994, a pair of attorneys in Arizona launched a homemade marketing software program that forever changed the Internet.
Want to stop spammers from clogging your in-box with get-rich-quick schemes, invitations from hot girls and Nigerian money-laundering antics?
The Internet is a dangerous place, full of profiteers who sell your personal data to information brokers and cunning criminals who have nothing better to do than obtain credit cards in your name, go on spending sprees, and ruin your credit rating. So whether you're shopping or chatting online, you'll need to take certain precautions to keep your personal info from falling into the wrong hands. Try these tips.
The US remains the world's biggest spammer, according to security firm Sophos, which today released its quarterly report on the world's top spam-offending countries -- dubbed the "Dirty Dozen".
Father of the Internet Vint Cerf has warned attendees at the World Economic Forum in Davos that the Iinternet is at serious risk from botnets.
Security researchers have discovered an e-mail harvesting tool that was pre-configured to target Seek.com.au's candidate database but a Seek executive claims its database is immune to such an attack.
The owners of the Storm botnet, whose identities are as yet unknown, could be preparing to sell off the "services" of segments of the network, according to Joe Stewart, a researcher from managed security services company SecureWorks.
A banner ad on MySpace containing a Windows exploit may have infected over a million machines with spyware
Swedish bank Nordea has told ZDNet UK that it has been stung for between seven and eight million Swedish krona (around AU$1,500,000) in what security company McAfee is describing as the "biggest ever" online bank heist.
A 30-year-old man suspected of being the 'Rizler' spam king is scheduled to appear in federal court Wednesday, following his arrest last week when he flew into the US.
Hoping to turn the tide on spam zombies, Microsoft has filed suit against entities it said used compromised PCs to send millions of junk e-mail messages.
Over the past year the number of online dating sites has increased significantly but security experts at Internet Security Systems (ISS) say many of these sites are being used at this time of year to spread malicious code, not love.
The most popular antivirus applications on the market are rendered useless by around 80 percent of new malware, according to AusCERT.
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